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Something Quotes by Gerhard Richter
- Form is all we have to help us cope with fundamentally chaotic facts and assaults. Formulating something is a great start. I trust form, trust…
- Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what exists; I make…
- Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture or even knowing…
- Painting is the making of an analogy for something non-visual and incomprehensible - giving it form and bringing it within reach. And that is why…
- Painting is traditional but for me that doesn't mean the academy. I felt a need to paint; I love painting. It was something natural -…
- I'm never really sure what that word means, but however inaccurately I use it, 'classical' was always my ideal, as long as I can remember,…
- But my motivation was more a matter of wanting to create order - to keep track of things. All those boxes full of photographs and…
- This superficial blurring has something to do with the incapacity I have just mentioned. I can make no statement about reality clearer than my own…
- I wanted to make it as anonymous as a photo. But it was perhaps also the wish for perfection, the unapproachable, which then means loss…
- I think everybody starts out by seeing a few works of art and wanting to do something like them. You want to understand what you…
- But I would like to reach the point where I could cut up an illustrated magazine at random and see to it that the parts…
- Above all, it's never blind chance: it's a chance that is always planned, but also always surprising. And I need it in order to carry…
- But it is also untrue that I have nothing specific in mind. As with my landscapes: I see countless landscapes, photograph barely 1 in 100,000,…
- I wanted to say something different: the pictures are also a leave-taking, in several respects. Factually: these specific persons are dead; as a general statement,…
- I began in 1976, with small abstract paintings that allowed me to do what I had never let myself do: put something down at random.…
- My method is related to an attempt to do something that might be understood by today's world, or that could at least provide understanding. In…
- The desire to please is maligned, unfairly. There are many sides to it. First of all, pictures have to arouse interest before people will even…
- When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the…
- Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I'm of a certain age, I come from a different…
- Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy.
More Something Quotes
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail. — Giorgio Armani
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. — J. J. Abrams
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen